Engaging contemporary culture from a biblical worldview.
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60034 The concept of “systemic racism” has become one of the most prominent and contested ideas in contemporary Western culture. It is the claim that racism is not primarily a matter of individual prejudice but is embedded in the structures, institutions, laws, and systems of society — operating independently of the intentions of the…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60035 The term “social gospel” has a long history in Christian thought, originating in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a movement that sought to apply Christian ethics to social problems — poverty, inequality, labour exploitation, and public health. In its contemporary form, it manifests as a Christianity that prioritises social justice,…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60030 Racism is one of the most persistent and painful realities of human history. From ancient tribal hostilities to the transatlantic slave trade, from apartheid to ongoing ethnic tensions across the globe, the hatred of one group by another on the basis of ethnicity or skin colour has caused immeasurable suffering. The question for…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60045 The term “woke” has undergone a rapid transformation in public usage. Originally emerging from African American vernacular to describe heightened awareness of racial injustice, it has expanded into a comprehensive cultural posture encompassing race, gender, sexuality, economic inequality, and a range of other social concerns. For Christians, the question is not whether awareness…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60046 To observers outside the United States, and to many American believers themselves, a particular strain of American evangelicalism has become closely identified with political positions on firearms and immigration that appear to be held with the same intensity as core doctrinal convictions. The phenomenon raises a legitimate question: when Christians invest as much…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60044 Intersectionality has moved rapidly from academic theory to mainstream cultural framework, and it now shapes public discourse on justice, identity, and power in ways that affect the church directly. Originally a tool for analysing how overlapping categories of disadvantage compound one another, it has developed into something considerably broader: a comprehensive worldview with…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60040 The word “deconstruction” has become one of the defining terms of the contemporary church conversation. Testimonies of people “deconstructing their faith” fill social media, podcasts, and bestseller lists, and the movement has touched every denomination and tradition. But Christianity already has a word for the process of examining inherited beliefs, stripping away what…
Reading Time: 4 minutesQuestion 60041 Theological progressivism is not a new phenomenon, but its current form has gained significant cultural momentum and now exercises considerable influence across denominations, seminaries, and publishing. The word “progressive” carries positive connotations in ordinary language, suggesting forward movement and improvement. Applied to theology, however, it describes something quite specific: the systematic revision of…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 60109 Antisemitism is the hatred, contempt, or systematic hostility directed at Jewish people because they are Jewish. It has taken many forms across history, from casual slander to genocidal violence, and it has often found shelter under religious, political, and even Christian banners. For the Christian, the question of whether antisemitism is wrong is…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 1099 Few issues have emerged with such speed and force in contemporary culture as gender ideology—the belief that gender is a spectrum separate from biological sex, that individuals can be “born in the wrong body,” and that one’s gender identity (internal sense of being male, female, neither, or something else) takes precedence over biological…